East Asia & Pacific · capital Beijing
China
#2 by population · Upper middle income · ISO CHN
Population right now
1,404,898,764
-3,959.4 net per day · 1 birth every 3.3 s
·anchor 1,406,585,000 on 1 Jul 2025
·16.921% of the world
👶 Births today
22,963
0% of the way to the next birth · 0 while you've been here
⚰️ Deaths today
26,321
0% of the way to the next death · 0 while you've been here
🧳 Net migration / yr
−53,625
5-yr avg from 2025
📈 Net growth / day
−3,487
-0.10% per year, from births − deaths + migration
Profile
Birth rate
6.77 /1,000
2024
Death rate
7.76 /1,000
2024
Fertility
1.01 births/woman
Life expectancy
78.0 yrs
Aged 0–14
15.4%
Aged 65+
14.9%
Urban
66.3%
Land area
9,562,910 km²
Density
147.1 /km²
GDP / capita
$13,862
2025
Trend
Population 2015–2025
Same region
Largest neighbours
How these numbers are made. Nobody counts people in real time.
Each figure is recomputed every frame from a World Bank anchor and rate:
pop(now) = 1,406,585,000 − 0.0458/s × elapsed since 1 Jul 2025
births/day = 26,072 (crude birth rate 6.77/1,000, 2024)
deaths/day = 29,885 (crude death rate 7.76/1,000, 2024)
Births and deaths are estimates for a hypothetical average day; they do not reflect
seasonality, and the migration figure is a 5-year average. World Bank's separately
published growth rate is -0.17%/yr; the rate shown above is derived
from the components so it always agrees with the counter. Full method →